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No. 6|0,22I. Patented Sept. 6, |898. J. ANTHDN. MACHINERY "FUR HUUPINGCASKS, BAHRELS. 0R THE LIKE.

(Application fxled Dec. 7, 1897.) (N0 Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet l.

Patented Sept. 6, 1898i.

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Nn. 610,22l. Patented sept. 6, |898. J. ANTHoN. MACHINERY FDR HOPINGCASKS, BARRELS, 0R THE LIKE.

(Application filed Dec. 7., 1897.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

Ummm STATES JOHANN ANTI-ION, OF FLENSBURG, GERMANY.

MACHINERY FOR HOOPING CASKS, BARRELS, OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,221, datedSeptember 6, 1898.

Application filed December 7, 1897. Serial No. 661,038. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHANN ANTHON, a subject of the King of Prussia,German Emperor, residing at Flensburg,in the Kingdom of Prus sia,Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machineryfor Hoopin g Casks, Barrels, or the Like and I do hereby declare thefollowing to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to machines for hooping casks; and it consists inthe novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fullydescribed and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the machine, partly insection. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the top of the machine,show ingone means for adjusting the driver-arms. Fig. 3 is a plan view, frombelow, of the adjusting mechanism shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectionalview of the top of the machine, showing a modified means for adjustingthe driverarms. Fig. 5 is a plan view, from below, of the adjustingmechanism shown in Fig. 4. Figs. 6 and 47 are side views of themachine,showingitin the act of driving hoops at equal and unequaldistances, respectively, from the ends of the cask. Figs. 8 and 9 eachshow a side and a front view of one means for connecting the driver-armsto the plate 23. Fig. 10 is a side View of the machine with thedriving-arms connected to the plate 23 by pins 28. Figs. 11 and 12 are across-section and a plan View showing a modification in the means forconnecting the driver-arms to the plate 23. Figs. 13 and 14 are also across-section and a plan view showing `the same parts as shown in Figs.11 and 12, but in anotherposition. Fig. 15 shows two detail views of themeans for connecting anddisconnecting the hand-wheel 19 with thesections of the shaft 17.

with claws for engaging with the hoops and are pivoted to brackets 8 bypins 7. Springs 12 are provided for pressing the arms toward the barrel.Similaidriver-arms 6a are pivotally supported by the top 3 in a similarmanner. The two sets of driver-arms are adjusted to suit casks ofdifferent diameters.

According to the arrangement shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the brackets 8 havepins 9, which are slidable in radial grooves in the table 5 and in thetop 3, andthese pins are moved in the radial grooves by means of disks10, provided with eccentric curved grooves 11, which engage with thepins 9. These disks are journaled on central pivot-pins and have teeth10 on their peripheries. Toothed pinions 18 engage with the teeth 10'and are se' cured on a shaft 17, journaled in'suitable bearings. Theshaft 17 may be made in two sections, and 15 shows how the handwheel maybe connected to one or both sections, so as to revolve the top piniononly or both pinions, as desired.

In the modification shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the brackets 8 are separatelymovable and are secured by bolts 13 after having been adj usted. Thebrackets 8 can be arranged in a circle or any other figure to suit anirregular cask. The driver-arms are here pressed toward the VCask byweights 17', instead of springs, and they have projecting members 14,which bear against the under side of a disk 16. The disk 16 is slidableon a central pin 15, and the arms are adjusted simultaneously by movingthe disk 16 up or down. A shaft 2O is journaled in the top 3 in ahorizontal position' and has an eccentric or cam 21 secured on one endof it for operating the disk 16. The other end of the shaft is providedwith means for turning it, such as beveled toothed wheels 22. n The caskis placed between two plates 23 and 24, which are slidable on thecolumns l. Springs 25 are interposed between the plate 23 and the table5 and between the plate 24 and the top 3. The table andtop each havebolts 27 secured to them and passing through holes in the plates 23 and24. The bolts 27 have nuts which limit the motion of the plates awayfrom the said table and top. Each plate is provided with slots 26 forthe'driverarms to slide in, as shownV in Fig. 8.

The cask is placed on the plate 23, as shown in Fig. 1, and the table israised, thereby IOO lIo

clamping the cask between the plates 23 and 24 and then driving on thehoops, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. In this manner the hoops at the upperand lower parts of the cask are driven simultaneously.

When the hoops are not parallel on the opposite end portions of thecask, and therefore cannot be driven simultaneously, the driverarms 6are coupled to the plate 23, so that the plate 23 is held at a xeddistance from the table 5. This may be accomplished in several ways.

In Fig. 10 pins 28 are shown, which are passed through holes in thedriver-arms below .the plate 23, so that the driver-arms raise the platewhen pushed upward and do not slide in the slots 26.

In Figs. 8 and 9 cross-pieces 29 are journaled on pins projecting fromthe driverarms 6. When the cross-pieces are in line with thedriver-arms, as shown in Fig. 8, the driver-arms can slide in the slots26; but when the cross pieces are turned crosswise, as shown in Fig. 9,the plate 23 is coupled to the driver-arms.

According to the modiiication shown in Figs. 1l to 14, the pins 32,which engage with the driver-arms 6, are not removable from them and arearranged so as to pass through the slots 26. A spider 30 is pivoted tothe plate 23 and is provided with notches through which the driver-armscan pass, but which will not admit the pins 32. Fig. 12 shows thedriver-arms connected to the plate 23, and Fig. 14 shows themdisconnected and free to slide.

What I claim is- 1. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination, withthe stationary end plates 2 and 3, and the guide-bars 1 connecting them;of a table 5 slidable on the said bars, plates 23 r and 24slidable onthe said bars and operating by the said table and end plate 3 andprojecting through openings in the said plates 23 and 24, substantiallyas set forth.

2. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination, with the stationary endplate 3, and the Vertical guide-bars 1 secured to it; of a plate 24slidable on the said guide-bars, means for limiting the downward travelof the said plate, springs interposed between the said plates, anddriver-arms carried by the plate 3 and projecting through openings inthe plate 24, substantially as set forth.

3. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination, with stationaryguide-bars, of a table slidable on the said bars, a plate 23 alsoslidable on the said bars, springs interposed between the said table andplate, driving-arms carried by the said table and projecting throughopenings in the said plate, and means for connecting the free endportions of the said arms with the said plate so that the said table andplate can be constrained to move simultaneously when desired,substantially as set forth.

4. In a barrel-hooping machine, the combination, with stationaryguide-bars, of a table slidable on the said bars, a plate 23 alsoslidable on the said bars, springs interposed between the said table andplate, driving-arms carried by the said table and projecting throughopenings in the said plate, and stoppieces 29 pivoted to the free endportions of the said arms, said stop-pieces being slidable in theopenings of the plate when arranged longitudinally of the said arms andconstraining the said plate to slide with the table when turnedcrosswise of the said arms, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOHANN ANTHON.

Vitnesses:

TENS HANSEN, HOLGER MATTsIEsEN.

